[Your consciousness drifts in to the sound of discordant whispers. It sounds like a hushed argument in another room, something you can't quite catch. You're cold. Your skin tingles slightly, and then...]
[ he'll water the flowers first, and then check the drawers. he's not quite sure if it will do much, but if there is anything to hang them with it can't hurt to leave it nearby them for later. ]
[In the desk you find... portraits. Little magically-created things, pretty, of various people that almost all look pretty obviously related to Ariel and Tristan. Also stationery and a few half-written letters. There's string for tying letter bundles if you want to take that.]
[You have string. The letters are actually mainly from Ariel to his parents. They're kind of sad, the letters of a young child whose family has gone away -- where did you go? are you well? I miss you., but quickly changing to simple polite updates on his life, all never quite finished, because they never could have been sent.]
[The journals are just depressing. A child's private thoughts, wondering what's happened, where his parents have gone, why everything's changed and what he did to be locked away, expressing loneliness, anger at the person responsible. But as time goes they deflate to a sad chronicle of a life growing up alone, learning to be unquestioningly faithful to the brother he was at first resentful of, delighting at having one friend but always, always talking of missing something, being lonely, yet unable to question the status quo. Reading them the whole room seems dim and starts to radiate a sense of isolated unhappiness.]
[ puts it down, goes to get the writing supplies. time for more cute notes
"You did nothing to deserve this." "You have every right to be angry and lonely." it's mostly validation of his feelings, emphasizing his right to have and express them— but he also leaves one or two comments to the point that Tristan is human and therefore flawed.
at the end he writes "Loneliness is painful, and you've been very strong to get as far as you have with so little. But you don't have to be alone anymore."
the journals get put back where he found them. is there an exit? ]
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"You may want to burn these when you're ready to let them go, or fold them into planes and send them out the window. Don't trap them here."
to the bottom, he adds a very careful scribbled doodle of... well, it's probably a cat. tucking it in with the letters ]
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"You did nothing to deserve this." "You have every right to be angry and lonely." it's mostly validation of his feelings, emphasizing his right to have and express them— but he also leaves one or two comments to the point that Tristan is human and therefore flawed.
at the end he writes "Loneliness is painful, and you've been very strong to get as far as you have with so little. But you don't have to be alone anymore."
the journals get put back where he found them. is there an exit? ]
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[ ...
tugging on the blanket rope to test it with great trepidation, though ]
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